Lifestyle Columns
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A taste for horror: Treat yourself to 31 fearful films this HalloweenOct 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Ah, Halloween is upon us and we've got just the treat for you! Thirty-one tasty flavors of fear made from the scariest movies in history. To help me out, I summoned fort...
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Steppenwolf's 'Glass Menagerie' earnest, powerfulOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - No Chekhovian gun placed onstage has ever packed as much dread as the precious little unicorn figurine when it's set precisely if tenuously on an end table in "The Glass...
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Columnists to share recipes at cooking expoOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - It's not yet Halloween and you're already fretting over the holidays. How many will be around the table for Thanksgiving? What will you serve alongside the turkey that w...
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Previews continue for Marriott's 'Aladdin'Oct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Previews continue for the Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences production of "Aladdin," inspired by the 1992 Disney film about an urchin whose life transforms when a gen...
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Lean muffins, good coffee worth waking up forOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - For many folks, morning doesn't begin until they've had a cup of coffee. For years that's meant stopping at the local Java Joes, yet in this tough economy, those morning...
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'Simpsons' showing its age in 19th 'Treehouse of Horror'Oct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Simpsons" unveils its 19th annual "Treehouse of Horror" special at 7 p.m. Sunday on Fox's WFLD Channel 32. It opens with Homer being confronted by a rigged voting m...
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Gire, Benson to break down BondOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Join me and novelist/film scholar Raymond Benson as "Dann and Raymond's Movie Club" looks at the 007 films in "No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die!" Clips from 16 films pl...
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A library tasting with Clos du Val's Bernard PortetOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - In wine as in Life, some things change and some things stay the same. Some things change slowly, like tradition or the slope of a hill. Some things change very quickly, ...
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Former restaurateur can't get out of the kitchenOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Until she retired from the restaurant business in August, Pam Holden never had time to cook. The irony is rich, like the gallons of cream of chicken soup she once prepar...
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Cruise still rocks in 'Risky,' 25 years laterOct 27, 2008 11:00 pm - This week, we catch up on some recent DVD releases you might have missed. "Risky Business" (25th Anniversary Edition) - Everyone remembers the signature scene from "...